LOCAL City to review junk car ordinance A 1994 city...

March 01, 2006

LOCALCity to review junk car ordinance A 1994 city ordinance dealing with abandoned cars is now being re-examined after a Plymouth police officer followed it correctly, but in doing so caused a stir at Monday night's Common Council meeting. B1Knox schools seek input on budget It takes a steady stream of money to operate a public school system. And when that revenue slows to a trickle, decisions need to be made. This week, officials at Knox Community Schools are asking the public to help them make some of those decisions, as they hold a special school board meeting Thursday to seek input on possible budget cuts within the district. B1Moor: His limp had to come with practice Chester died earlier this week. His real name, of course, was Dennis Weaver, who played the deputy in "Gunsmoke" with a limp in his gait and a whine in his voice. While Matt Dillon, played by James Arness, was the soft-spoken but hard-nosed marshal, Chester was his wimpy sidekick. Columnist Bill Moor always liked Chester -- probably because he figured he was more like him than the heroic and towering (at 6 feet 7 inches) "Mis-ter Dil-lon," as Chester called him. B1NATION/WORLDFormer stripper isn't flashy at high court It was not what you would call an Anna Nicole Smith performance. The former stripper slipped in the side door of the Supreme Court Tuesday in Washington and listened quietly in the back while her lawyers argued that she was entitled to nearly $500 million she had been promised by her late husband. A6